Mark W. Albers, M.D., Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Harvard Medical School
Interests: Early Pathogenic Events of Neurodegeneration, Alzheimers
Tracy T. Batchelor, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Neurologists at the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Executive Director at the Stepehn E. & Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Experimental Trials for Novel Agents, Neuroepidemiology, Glioblastoma, Primary CNS Lymphoma
Rebecca Betensky, Ph.D.
Professor of of Epidemiology Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and at the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Interests: Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, ALS: causes, risks, biomarkers
Stephen Buka, Sc.D.
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Social & Behavioral Sciences
Interests: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment of Behavioral and Learning Disorders for Children and Adolescents.
Brent Coull, Ph.D.Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health
Interests: Categorical Data, Semiparametric Modeling, Latent Class Models, Brain Tumor Genomics
Merit Cudkowicz, M.D., MSc.
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Neurology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Clinic, and Neurological Clinical Research Institute, and Co-Director of the Neuromuscular Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Experimental Therapeutics, Clinical Trial Design, ALS, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s
Mark Daly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at Chief, Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit, Harvard Medical School
Interests: Understanding Patterns in Variation in the Human Genome, Developing Effective Statistical Methods for Finding Disease Variants.
Stephen V. Faraone, Ph.D.
Professor and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience & Physiology
Interests: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Nature and Causes of Mental Disorders in Childhood, Genetic Analysis Methods
Maurizio Fava, M.D.
Professor & Executive Vice Chair at Department of Psychiatry and Director, Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital /Harvard Medical School
Interests: Assessing Treatment Efficacy in Depression, Biological Underpinnings of Depression.
Garrett Fitzmaurice, Sc.D.
Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health & Director of the Laboratory for Psychiatric Biostatistics at the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital/ Harvard Medical School
Interests: Longitudinal and Multi- informant Data and their Application in Psychiatry; Methodology for Handling Missing Data.
Matthew Frosch, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of Neuropathology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Neuropathology of Alzheimer’s, Mouse Models of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Alzheimer’s, CAA
S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.P.H., M.D.
Professor and Director of the Mood Disorders Program at the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine
Interests: Mood Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Depression and Manic-Depressive Illness, Clinical Trials of Psychopharmacologic Agents
Jill Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Research at the Connor Center for Women’s Health, Brigham & Women’s Hospital in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Interests: Epidemiology of Schizophrenia; Epidemiology and Neuroscience of Gender Differences in Psychiatric Disorders
Mark Steven Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Director of the Neurology Clinical Trials Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Dementia, Stroke, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopahty, Alzheimer’s, CAA
Mahmut Edip Gurol, M.D., M.Sc.
Instructor in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Director of the Neurovascular Lab MGH
Interests: Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Cognitive Impairment, Ischemic Strokes, Stroke Prevention
Brian C. Healy, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Instructor in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health
Interests: Statistical Modeling of MS Progression, Prediction Modeling combining MRI and Clinical Features, High Dimensional Bayesian Variable Selection, Study Design, Multiple Sclerosis
Nicholas J. Horton, Sc.D.
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Smith College
Interests: Biostatistical Methods for Observational Studies; Methodology for the Analysis of Missing Data, Analysis of Longitudinal or Repeated Measures Data
James Hudson, M.D., Sc.D.
Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Interests: Epidemiology and Genetics of Mood and Eating Disorders; Psychopharmacology and Clinical Trials
Bradley Hyman, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Alzheimer’s Unit at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease
Interests: Advanced Microscopy, Quantitative Neuropathology for Genotype/Phenotype analysis, Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body Diseases
Keith Johnson, M.D.
Professor of Radiology and Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of Molecular Neuroimaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Physician of Neurology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Interests: Functional and Molecular Imaging of Neurologic Disease
Igor J. Koralnik, M.D.
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the HIV/Neurology Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Interests: Neuro-AIDS, Neuro-Infectious Diseases, Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Laura Kubzansky, M.P.H., Ph.D.Associate Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health
Interests: Psychological and Social Factors in Health, Stress, Aging and Genetics.
Christoph Lange, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health & Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Interests: Development of Novel Methodology for Genome-Wide Association (GWA)
Nan Laird, Ph.D.Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health
Interests: Statistical Genetics, Longitudinal Studies, Missing or Incomplete Data, and Analysis of Multiple Informant Data; Psychiatric Epidemiology
David Louis, M.D.
Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of the Department of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Molecular Genetics of Brain Tumors
Michael J. Lyons, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Boston University and the Chief of Twin Studies, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics
Interests: Psychiatric Genetics and Epidemiology, Influence of Factors on Aging Psychopathology
Matthew Miller, MPH, M.D., Sc.D
Professor of the Department of Health Policy & Management at Harvard School of Public Health
Interests: Epidemiology and Prevention of Suicide, Injury Prevention, Medical Ethics
Sharon-Lise Normand, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health and Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
Interests: Statistical Methods for Health Services and Outcomes; Health Services Research in Schizophrenia Depression, and Bipolar Disorder; Item Response Theory and Related Methods.
Roy H. Perlis, M.D., MSc
Associate Professor and Director at theLaboratory of Psychiatric Pharmacogenomics and Bipolar Clinic and Research Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Interests: Bipolar Disorder and Pharmacogenomics
John Quakenbush, Ph.D.
Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Harvard School of Public Health, and Biostatistics and Computational Biology and Cancer Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Director of Center for Cancer Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Interests: Genomics, Functional Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology focused on Discovering the Mechanisms of Human Disease.
Dorene Rentz, Psy.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women’s General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Neurophsychology, Alzheimer’s Disease, the Development of Novel Cognitive Instruments
Natalia S. Rost, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Director of Acute Stroke Services at Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Stroke, Clinical Care of Stroke Patients, Post Stroke Disabilities, Outcome Prediction of Patients with Acute Strokes, Neuroimaging of Cerebrovascular Disease, Genetics and Genomics,
Susan L. Santangelo, Sc.D.
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and Director of Research at the Department of Psychiatry at the Maine Medical Center
Interests: Genetic Architecture of Diseases with Complex Diseases, including Autism, Schizophrenia, OCD
David Schoenfeld, Ph.D.Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Biostatistics Center at Harvard Medical School.
Interests: Survival Analysis, Clinical Trials for Neurology, Study Design
Lee H. Schwamm, M.D.
Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Executive Vice Chairman of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of Stroke Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of Partners Telestroke Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Neurocritical Care, Telemedicine, Brain Imaging, Stroke
Michael Alan Schwarzschild, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Neurobiology Laboratory at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Mouse Models, Molecular Pathways of Parkinson’s Disease
Larry J. Seidman, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair (Research) at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center Public Psychiatry Division and Director of the Commonwealth Research Center and Laboratory of Developmental Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
Interests: Early Identification and Longitudinal Follow Up of “At Risk” Individuals for Schizophrenia and Other Developmental Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Brain Imaging Markers
Reisa Sperling, M.D., M.M.Sc.
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Director for the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Alzheimer’s Disease, Neuroimaging, Clinical Trials
Kevin Staley, M.D.
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Unit Chief of the Department of Pediatric Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Interests: Epilepsy, Neonatal Seizures
Marcia Testa, Ph.D.Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health
Interests: Health Outcomes Assessment, and Analysis, Translational Research Methods, Quality of Life Measure and Relationship to Health, Mental Health, and Functional Outcomes
Ming T. Tsuang, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and
Director of the Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics and Behavioral Genomics Endowed Chair and University Professor, and Director of Center for Behavioral Genomics at the Department of Psychiatry of University of California, San Diego.
Genetic Epidemiology and Outcomes of Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder and Atypical Psychoses, Major Affective Disorders, Alcoholism and Drug Psychoses, and Related Psychiatric Conditions
Anand Viswanathan, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Assistant Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Stroke Research Center and Neurology Clinical Trials Unit
Interests: Stroke, Memory Disorders, CADASIL, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
David Williams, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of African and African-American Studies and Professor of Sociology at Harvard University
Interests: Social Factors Related to the Distribution of Psychiatric Disorders in Large, Psychiatric Epidemiologic Studies, Role of Social Factors in Racial and SES Differentials in Mental Health
Paige Williams, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the Core for Biostatistics and Epidemiologic Methods for Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Studies at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research at Harvard School of Public Health
Interests: Psychiatric and Neurological Endpoints for AIDS/HIV Infected Children, Methods for Multiple Outcomes in Clinical Trials or Observational Studies
